Posts made by Sharky-PI

This is as much of a discussion than a specific request.

Previously requested here, (separate with ; ), here (for Subsonic, also separates with ; ), and here (general discussion).

Foobar & some others support using ; to separate within field.

OneTagger supports it but uses subgenres - I'm not fully sure how, though one option is by using a custom separate field; more info here.

Beets has canonical nested genres which is pretty cool.

Already in Strawberry if you tag a track with multiple genres split by ; e.g. "Microhouse;ClownPenis", that track will appear in a search for genre:microhouse and also genre:clownpenis, so that's great already. Similarly smart playlists work for "genre contains" any of multiple semicolon-separated terms.

A downside is that if you group your collection by genre, the full term is shown, not both separate terms, which will cause the genres grouping to become nightmarishly messy.

So I think feature request 1 is to allow Collection views which contain Genre to split tracks by semicolon and display the same track under both (or more) genre dropdowns.

Keen for your thoughts. Cheers!

@rlkeeney @jonas thanks lads, sorry, only just saw these replies.

Ok so for MP3 ID3v2.4 I shouldn't need to do anything given I have those 4 options ticked, i.e.:

• Once a track has finished playing in Strawberry
  -- if I've rated it in Strawberry, Strawberry should save the rating to the file
  -- Strawberry should increment the playcount +1 and save that to the file
• If I edit a track externally (for reference, I would only be saving other tag fields, never rating nor playcount) Strawberry will re-read the track... so if I listen to a track in Strawberry, rate it, the track ends and the rating and playcount are updated by Strawberry to the track's ID3, then I change the track's comment externally, Strawberry should subsequently re-read the track's info (when it does a full scan?) and see the updated comment, and the rating & playcount should still be correct?

I might need to do some testing on that last one. For some reason it seems I have LOADS of tracks I've definitely played countless times, which have playcount=0, and similarly loads I've played and rated which have blanks for both. In the meantime I've edited various ID3 details for those tracks, but as I understand it, that should never compromise the playcounts and ratings, so it seems something is behaving incorrectly...

@jonas Hi Jonas, any thoughts about this bud? Strawberry definitely isn't saving playcounts and ratings to song tags and they're being lost, which is frustrating because I've been deliberately listening to and ratings tracks, only for many of those ratings to be lost. Cheers for any info you can share, hopefully this will reveal some underlying behaviour which might be possible to improve so the functionality improves. Thanks!

@jonas fabulous stuff, sorted, cheers mate

@silver-sun said in Comment tag incorrectly displays "0" for some files with correctly populated Comment tags, from Gapless Playback & iTunSMPB fields:

Perhaps the "0" value displayed is a result of Strawberry trying to do something it can't. (just a guess).

Thanks bud. I too suspect the 0 value reveals an underlying bug or fallback behaviour which is undesired. Hence why other files errantly display "000000 [etc]" from the iTunSMPB field.

If I could work out what Strawberry is doing in the backend, this would reveal if it's a bug, or a deliberate functional choice, in which case I can probably work around it, e.g. deleting the gapless playback field or whatever.

Cheers!

@jonas ditto sorry to bump but I'd love to find out how this works under the hood, and therefore whether I should change the last two of these settings, and/or should be clicking the button every time I close Strawberry. If these metadata aren't being saved to files in a timely manner then I propose this is a bug or at least a potential point for improvement. Thanks.

@jonas sorry to bump but any chance you could have a look at this for me? I'm happy to send any files required. This feels like a bug. Thanks.

@jonas hi again, while I'm on the board, I don't suppose you could have a look at this & LMK your thoughts could you? I'd love to fix this. Happy to share file examples or screenshots as needed. Thanks!

@jonas please could you explain what this means?

I've been going through playlists deliberately tagging untagged files for ratings, which should also have been populating the playcounts. I've never manually clicked that "save playcounts now" deep menu button until now, and it seemed to process a huge amount of stuff in the background.

Is there a way to force writing after each song is finished?

Am I right in presuming that the last two items mean that any tracks that are moved or altered outside of strawberry, without first saving to tags, would be those tag saves get overwritten?

Currently there are loads of files I'm 99% sure I rated and have definitely listened to.

Would be v keen to know how it's possible to ensure everything is saved to files asap.

Cheers!

@rlkeeney Thanks for the idea RL. Sadly some of the culprits don't have 2 comments, e.g.:

Top track, resident advisor 956, Comment = 0.

But as you can see, the file has 2 comments which I manually populated - the track list and the description (FWIW: please LMK if there's a better place to put track lists so that I can search for tracks and they'll appear either as individual files or as part of podcasts. AFAIK only putting track names (and lyrics?) in Comment allows this? Should I move the description out of Comment2 and to Description?).

The only field with "0" as the entry is Gapless Playback.

From the top image, Death Cab's "I will possess your heart" has the proper comment, and has no Gapless Playback field.
I just deleted the Gapless Playback field from the resident advisor tag, waited a while, restarted Strawberry, waited some more, and it's fixed:

Further diagnostics from that screenshot: various other tracks have the same issue, but:

Some of them have normal comments despite having Gapless Playback = 0. In the case of this one, Joker, it only has 1 Comment, I guess because the tracklisting wasn't available. However Fumiya Tanaka has the 0 issue and only 1 Comment and Gapless Playback, so maybe the 2 Comments thing is a dead end...

Some of the tracks above have "00000..." as the comment, e.g. Rey Collino: 2 Comments, Gapless Playback, but now Strawberry is drawing from the iTunSMPB field for some reason:

LMK if there's any more info I can gather which would be helpful for diagnoses. Xubuntu 24.10, Strawberry 1.2.2, Qt 6.4.2.

The multimedia buttons on my keyboard (Logitech G213) work at startup but conditions seem to be able to make them stop working for Strawberry. The volume/mute keys still work.

Condition candidates:

• Standby & resume
• Add new HDMI source (TV turned on, causes screen config changes, screws up Strawberry window a bit, resulting in double mood/progress bar)

Notable: If I open Rhythmbox, the multimedia key functionality is repaired for Strawberry.

@rlkeeney RL do you happen to know if one can search the lyrics field?
I've started to manually enter lyrics for lots of deep house tunes which typically only have a few lines, and often an unrelated track name, so being able to search for
"specific sentences of lyrics"
would be really useful. The default search bar searches multiple fields including Comment but not lyrics, it seems.
Thanks for any intel!

1. Find an album name with a hyphen/dash in it, e.g. "Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)"
2. Make 2 new playlists with that album in it.
3. From playlist 1, copy that name exactly (I love that you can hit F2 to make editable)
4. In playlist 2, paste that name in the search bar. Nothing is returned until you delete the hyphen/dash.

@jonas sorry to tag you / bump this mate; any chance you have an idea why Strawberry is behaving this way?

The playlists are in the Collection folder (/Music) subfolder (/Music/playlists) and auto-imported fine. But saving new playlists doesn't populate them to the Playlists tab list.

I tried a full rescan, but I don't have to do this for new music.

I just tried saving the playlist as m3u8 instead of m3u but that didn't change things either.

Thanks for any intel!

Hi Jonas, I have a similar thing, just tried integrity check, came back clean. Might be I'm doing something wrong but it seems like it should be simple.

I think Strawberry auto-loaded my old existing .m3u playlists from /music/playlists, which is nice.

I created a new one, added a few tracks, and saved as .m3u in the same folder. But it doesn't show up in the playlists left tab list. I can load it manually, it'll open as a tab (playlists tabs are great btw!), I can edit & save it. But it's never in the playlists left tab list upon re-open. I believe it IS present in the playlists top tabs if I left it open.

Do you have any info on the background process which causes the playlists left tab to be populated - or not? Thanks!

@rlkeeney great news, thank you sir!

The search function seems very powerful, evidently searching within the ID3 comments field, and (per a github issue) the filename also, but I'm failing to work out how to search specific fields, e.g. track name, as opposed to searching everything. Is this possible? If so this would be great, not only to avoid getting various lower-quality hits (e.g. where the artist or filename of interest is mentioned in the comments of every track in a various artists album), but also to allow searching specifically comments or lyrics fields.

Thanks in advance!